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Does good work. And I have been meeting with people here as well in fundraisers for PragerU. One of the great perks of my work is meeting wonderful people. Very, very few people get to do that. It is a sadness in my life on behalf of others that most wonderful people don't get to meet a lot of wonderful people. I mean, it's just— how can you? What, do you put out an ad? If you're a fine human being and have good values, you know, please contact me. That's one of the reasons, by the way, that we have a lot of get-togethers, whether that I organize, PragerU cruises, trips to Israel, where you can meet other wonderful people. It's a very big source of strength in my life, meeting such people. So here I am in Florida where you can actually enter a restaurant. I feel— I'll tell you how I feel, and it's, uh, it's unbelievable that I'm saying this. I, I am incredulous about what I am about to say myself. The last time I felt this way coming to Florida from California was when I was in my 20s. I visited communist countries a great deal, and I would go north-south or south-north. So if it was north-south, it was Poland to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany. And when I would take a break, 'cause it was so stifling to be in a communist country. So I'd take a break, and in the middle, whether I went south-north or north-south, I would stop in Vienna. And I remember what a sense of relief. Ah, freedom. It's so wonderful. And I'm not making an exact comparison, but I am emoting, I am offering you an emotion that coming to Florida from California, I felt as I did when I went to Austria, to Vienna, from the communist countries of Eastern Europe. I'll give you another analogy that I gave in my talk last night to some people in Jupiter, Florida. And that was, people come over to me, not so much now because there's so little flying compared to the last years. So I would be at an airport, there are two airports at least, every, just about every week of the year. People would come over to me, no matter where in the country, they'd come over. And very often people would come over and they would whisper, just, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a conservative. Or they'd look around and they go, I'm a Trump supporter. And I'll tell you of another emotion that I had when that took place. That when I met with dissidents in the Soviet Union, they would come over to me and whisper to me, you know, I hate communism, or I hate the regime. And they would look around before they talked to me. See, communism, fascism are not unique to Germans. They're not unique to Russians. Or North Koreans. The human condition is such that people are enticed by evil because it never says we're evil. It doesn't make an announcement we're evil. So they're enticed for by something else into that evil. That's the human condition. And especially good, they announce, we will stifle all opponents. Because what was an opponent called in a communist country? A fascist. What was Donald Trump called? The biggest opponent the left has had in my lifetime? A fascist. That's what the left does. So what— and what do they call conservative Exactly what communists have done. So the student thinks, 'Oh, I don't want a fascist on my campus.' They don't even know what a fascist is, but they know it's bad. So people are enticed by communism— call it progressivism, call it leftism, call it whatever you like, Bolshevism. They are enticed because it says, we're all— listen, we're not against free speech, we're against hate speech. And the 40% of you So people are enticed by communism. Call it progressivism, call it leftism, call it whatever you like, Bolshevism. They are enticed because it says, we're all— listen, we're not against free speech, we're against hate speech.

And the 40% of people That guy never campaigned with such little enthusiasm for his campaign. He knew he could stay in space because he knew the fix would Over 60—

I mean, no, I think it's 76% of Republicans believe there was a theft. This is Pew Research.

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The rich are richer. Google and Facebook are more powerful than ever before. Normal people have had their voice suppressed. Anywhere between 250,000 to 275,000 to 300,000 people have died from the Chinese coronavirus. The lockdowns have killed dreams, ambitions, and human beings through suicide and other means. How did all of this happen? Aristotle famously said that we are the speaking beings. If we do not have the ability to speak and communicate, we are no different than the animals of the wild. Aristotle was a scientist. He was— some would call him an empiricist. It's not a perfect categorization, but he cared about what was happening in the natural world, where Plato cared about what was happening in the clouds, the space of ideas. Aristotle cared a lot about what was actually provable and based in reason.

No, but I'm on my Comrex box, which is usually trustworthy. Feel bad when that happens. So do you guys remember where I— how long ago? About 2 minutes? 3 minutes? Yeah. So I'm I'm telling you about no country being immune to the suppression of freedom, not even the country that is the land of the free and the home of the brave. And that's, uh, that's the threat here, which brings me to Georgia. Bad day. I don't understand it. Yeah, I, I—

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Listen to what Joe Biden said about the actions like the one we saw last night in Minneapolis to literally defund the police.

But I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that because they've already labeled us as being defund the police. Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you, will occur, promise you. Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th, because that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we're talking about defunding the police. We're not. We're talking about holding them accountable.

Nothing screams holding them accountable better than stripping $8 million from the police department in Minneapolis, which of course will result in— here's how this works. If you don't have funds for the police, if you funnel them into, uh, I guess mental health counselors, and good luck handling a raging violent criminal. Good luck with that if you're a mental health counselor. Maybe you can sit there and start singing folk music to somebody who's, you know, waving a machete around. Maybe you could go back and ask them if they wet the bed when they were a child as they're, you know, on a rampage. Oh, we're not. But this is a very important clip from Biden. You've got to know exactly his intention.

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Is there anybody in the business of film criticism who you admire for their craft?

Guy like Joe Morgenstern with Wall Street Journal. He has liked some of my work. He has liked some of my movies. He has not liked some and not liked me in some. But all that, when he doesn't like it, he's constructive about it. Meaning, I read, I'll read bad criticisms and I can tell in the first line that, oh, this person had it in for me before they even saw the movie. They had already started this bad review before they saw the movie. So you know what, that's not really a criticism, that's that person's hang-up. But when I can read somebody that has a good criticism, and Joe does, I think, constructive criticism. And here's why I didn't like the movie, or here's why Matthew's performance didn't translate for me. I always learned something from it.

And is it something that you do— will you study reviews from serious people after a film comes out in order to improve your craft? Because they're good at theirs.

Yes, yes, I have done this. Um, look, obviously it's more fun to read a good review, and obviously when you, when you do your work and you— and I feel like I did it well and I read a good review, I think those are— those people are smarter. But I went away, um, 8 years ago, and I had my publicist gather every bad review that's ever been written on my performances, which is almost 50 at the time.

That's not in the book, huh?

It was a thick— no, it's not. I didn't put it in there. Maybe it could be in the next one. I went away and read every single one and kind of learned more from the bad reviews in a way than I did from the good ones.

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Huge number of Democrats who believe that the Russians changed the outcome of the election in 2016, but they're just flabbergasted that Donald Trump is daring to suggest that this election might have been rigged or might be fraudulent. No matter what the Russians may have done, I say to my friends who are listening to the program, the Democrats, no matter what the Russians have done or the Chinese have done or the Iranians have done, and clearly they've all have tried to interfere with our elections, it pales in comparison to the interference, and I put that in quotes, by the mainstream media that you guys gobble up.

Hunter Biden, New York Post breaks this story days before the election. This is a bombshell, and it isn't because Hunter Biden—

doing everything possible, folks, not to be bumped off here. I'm connected to you from Florida, and the The machine is just not as trustworthy as always. So let's, uh, let's just hope it works out. I want to bring to you a report here, give you an idea of what's happening. Part of the notion, if you understand this, you understand America and the world. If you don't understand this or you deny it, then there's no possibility of apprehending what is happening in the world. Everything the left touches, it destroys. Not liberals. Always make a distinction. Liberals put leftists into power, but liberals are not leftists. They're naive to the extent that a human being can be. So here's another one. New England Journal of Medicine. The latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, two doctors and a lawyer have written that it's time to do away with putting a newborn baby's biological sex on a birth certificate. Yep, this is from the summary, New England Journal of Medicine. This is supposedly the most prestigious U.S. journal of medicine. Quote, sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility, and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people. Moving such designations below the line of demarcation wouldn't compromise the birth certificate's public health function but could avoid harm. This is the New England Journal of Medicine. Remember, we had scientists, thousands of scientists, saying that it was a health benefit to demonstrate for racial justice. The poisoning of the sciences is the latest in the destruction, the tsunami of destruction that the left creates. It is a force of chaos. They don't even know what they believe in. They only know that things must change at all times. They only know that what is good is awful and what is bad is not awful. America is good and it is awful. Here are the authors: Vadim Steiler, clinical assistant professor of medicine, Brown University. Brown University is notorious for being a cuckoo place. It's just a cuckoo place. They were since the 1960s, '70s. Wasn't it Brown that the students got stuff in case of nuclear attack? They had a storehouse to be able to survive a nuclear attack. Second author is Jessica Clark, a law professor at Vanderbilt Law School. Quote, she studies constitutional and statutory guarantees of nondiscrimination based on traits such as race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and disability. And Eli Y. Adashi, former Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University, clinical specialty is gynecology. So he, uh, he treats— as a gynecologist, he treats men and women. So this is, uh, this is the latest for you from the New England Journal of Medicine. Do not put sex on a birth certificate. This is what, of course, your kids will be learning at the university, should you risk their going there. And at risk it is indeed. 1-800-PRAGER-776 is the number here. And the battle continues. So I was talking to you about people in Georgia. I don't know if I was cut out. I think I was cut out at the time. There are Republicans in Georgia who were angry that the president was defeated unfairly or defeated at all, and an anger which I understand. And they are angry at their governor and their secretary of state, and they're going to show them they're not going to vote for either of the two Senate races. If the Democrats win the two races, they win the U.S. Senate. And look, I don't want to be dramatic, but it is very hard to see a permanent or at least very long-term damage done to this country. The changing of its economy, the changing of— I mean, just things like this. They'll just pass bills. You can't put sex or gender on a birth certificate. I mean, there's no end. When— if you are a Republican in Georgia and you won't vote because you're annoyed or angry, forgive me, but you are as damaging to the United States of America as any left-wing activist. It's a fact. That is not a— it's not an opinion. But I've lived long enough to know the power of emotions over reason in the human condition, and that would be a perfectly good example. People in Georgia, anyone but a leftist has the chance to protect this country from a left-wing Bolshevik slash communist dominance. I don't know what else— what other term shall I use? Progressive? Are you kidding? It is progressive not to put the sex of a child on a birth certificate? So you have the chance in Georgia to protect this country as much as anyone in American history has had the chance to protect this country. But, uh, arguing against people's emotions is a very difficult thing to do. I am well aware of that. I have spent a good chunk of my life arguing with people's emotions, and that is, uh, the case in Georgia today. If you're in Georgia, I'm curious what you, uh, what you do think. About your state? And are there— more important to me, do, do you know of people who won't vote, who voted for Donald Trump, for example? The president needs to make it clear it is more— what happens in Georgia is more important than right now the challenge to the, uh, the Biden election. It is simply more important. Okay, you have to— everything, all good in life is done by choosing priorities, and this, uh, this would be one of those examples. 877-243-7776. Sorry, 877-243-7776. So 1-8-Prager-776. In a very difficult time for our country. If, uh, what is it, Becerra is going to Washington and his entire— from, from Attorney General in California, and it will be COVID, COVID, COVID. And, you know, masks, masks, masks. The study done by the Mayo Clinic on masks is so flawed that a, a 5th grader could understand how flawed it is. We're living in a very strange time, and it's very important to fight back, my friends, for those old things: truth, justice, and the American way.

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I'm so tired of grievance, Matthew. You're just not mad at anybody except one moment with your mom. Were you aware of that when you were writing this?

Uh, you know, I mean, I've got my grievances, but I, but I've learned to move on from— if I can't be constructive with them, I've learned to move on. I mean, even the deal with my mom, we had a grievance for 8 years, but I knew that was going to have— that we were going to mend our fences and come back together. I just didn't know when, and it took 8 years.

Did you not get a role that you really wished you'd gotten? I mean, that you still think about to this day?

No, Hugh, I've got to be honest. I'm pretty fortunate in everything that I passed on. I have no regret on anything I passed on. There was a movie that I did love that I was offered that I said no to, but I loved the movie, and that was L.A. Confidential. Oh, Curtis Hanson directed. It's a great movie. And that came to me right after I got famous as A Time to Kill. And so I write about in the book that after that weekend of Time to Kill opened, all of a sudden I was being offered everything, whereas 2 days before Time to Kill opened, I wasn't getting offered much of anything. And so I had— in my— maybe in the affluence of scripts that were coming my way, I remember reading that one thinking it's really good, but I just don't have to do it. But then I saw the movie and I was like, oh, that was a really good one.

Well, I'd be, I'd be amazed if someone in your position doesn't have at least one that you wish you could get back.

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What do you make of a city like Minneapolis, Minnesota? That slashed the police budget by millions of dollars last night. It was a unanimous vote. These kooks originally voted to abolish the police department altogether. I'm going to give you some numbers because this is very real here in Georgia too. How pro-police do you think Raphael Warnock is? How pro-police do you think Jon Ossoff is. How pro-police do you think today's Democrats are? In Minneapolis, where we have a lot of listeners, here are some numbers that I want to share with you. There have been 532 gunshot victims so far this year. 532. More than double the same period a year ago. Carjackings are up 331% from the same period last year. They've had hundreds of carjackings in the streets of Minneapolis. Violent crimes have surged to 5,100 crimes. And what did Minneapolis City Council do? Unanimously voted to slash the Minneapolis Police Department's budget by $8 million. Supposedly, they'll take the money and funnel it to other city services, including mental health teams and violence prevention programs, as they try to, quote, transform police.

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What could we have done to change the outcome? Now, what the Democrats did was to use—

All right, everybody, we got somebody in Georgia won't be voting. I'm Dennis Prager, welcome to the show. Jim, thank you in Atlanta for calling.

Hey Dennis, uh, good to talk to you.

Thank you.

Uh, yeah, the reason, uh, that I'm not going to be voting, and a lot of us here, is, um, they're using the same rigged machines. So it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to us why we would go back and vote on the same machines that we did before where they rigged the election.

So you, you would give them a landslide rather than make it tougher for them?

Well, they're going to get the landslide in, uh, anyways because they've already started with that, uh, by mailing out ballots. And they're going to do the same thing they did last time.

So there, there are no safeguards since the national election? Nothing has changed?

Absolutely not. Absolutely not. There's no safeguards. And they, they didn't even look at any of the evidence. They've got videotapes of them bringing out ballots from under tables after they, they pushed people out of the room during the vote. And the people in Georgia were just kind of fed up with the whole thing and were fed up with the Republican Party also. They did absolutely nothing to try to to fix the problem that just happened, which was the rigged election. They did absolutely nothing.

Governor, you're not voting is a sort of a kick in the teeth in the, uh, in the governor's face.

Yes, and it's beyond that. A lot of us are completely done with the Republican Party, uh, and it's not just me.

What is your alternative? There's What is your alternative to the Democrats?

Uh, let them run it for 4 years and, uh, see what they do to it. And then, wait, wait, wait, and then maybe they'll ruin them around.

So they'll ruin the country because you're, you're ticked off at the Republicans and you're prepared to ruin the country to prove your point?

I'm not prepared, but the problem is they're going to rig the election again.

Yeah, but if enough Republicans vote, they can't, they can't They can't rig it if every Republican in Georgia votes.

They did. They could. Yes, they did it last time. Why wouldn't they do it again?

Because, uh, uh, okay, I don't know that. I don't know for a fact that they will do it again. They will try to do it if the Republicans, if people like you or others are, are not going to oversee anything. Or forget you, I don't, I don't put you on the spot. You're It's not your position to oversee elections.

We tried to. There was, there was people from the Republican Party and they were—

all I could say is, you, you are— do you understand the damage that will be done to the country if they have the Senate, the presidency, and the House?

I understand that, but they're going to do it anyways. That's the problem, right? And nobody in the Republic— nobody in the Republican Party came forward to try to to do anything about it after the fact. I mean, a crime was committed and they did absolutely nothing about it, right?

So all you're doing is— okay, by you're not voting, you're rewarding the crime.

Uh, that's not true.

Yes, it is. And because you cheated, I'm going to let you win the next time.

Well, how come nobody stood up for the fact of what they did. Why can't we do a paper ballot?

I agree with you. I agree with you.

They should put— they should postpone the election, which, uh, the— this— the, um, the governor has done previously. Postpone it and just do a paper ballot. Then you'll get— you'll get everybody to go out and vote.

Yes, I think it should be paper ballots in every place in the country. In the meantime, you're not voting is a guarantee that evil people will ruin America. I just don't understand why you are at peace with that. I'm glad you called. It means a lot. It's better. Here's another person who has a view on this. John in Chicago. Hello.

That was my favorite phone call ever to your show.

Oh, that was—

he, he, he made my point for me. You Just like you told everybody who listens to you that the medical establishment are a bunch of bad leftists, and now they're supposed to all trust them for the vaccine. You spent the last month and a half telling everybody that the election was stolen, but now you desperately need them all to go vote. That man is responding to what you told him, Dennis. You made that guy that— you're responsible for what he believes, right?

So you believe that the the election was fair in every state?

Yes or no, sir?

Do you believe— if you don't answer, I'm hanging up. I answer you, you answer me. I have rules of discourse in this show. Do you believe that the voting was honest in every state?

I believe Mr. Krebs was right. I believe the Department of Homeland Security's assessment.

Yes, sir, I do.

Okay, I think you're a fool. I don't believe it was honest in every state. Do you believe that Democrats ever do Democrats cheat in elections more than Republicans do? I'll keep you on, in fact. You're going to have 3 minutes to think up an answer. Do Democrats cheat more in elections than Republicans? I am here in Florida and I am with my trusty Relief Factor. It is an amazing product. My puzzle is, given how many people have been helped— just read through the statements that people have made at relieffactor.com, and I know that they're honest because I know the people who run Relief Factor, the father and son. And I know what people have told me. People have actually canceled surgery because they were able to get rid of their muscle or joint pain. In 3 weeks you'll know if it works, so they have a special 3-week price, $19.95 plus shipping And that is at relieffactor.com, 800-500-8384.

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Let's look at the last 4 years. Let's look at the last 40 years and ask the question that a former communist revolutionary asked: What is to be done? Well, that question must be approached with an adequate understanding of what happened 4 years ago in 2016, because it was such a strange occurrence, something that no man or woman could have predicted. How a reality TV star who was really, really not a member of the Manhattan jet set, who was rejected by that jet set for the longest time until a certain member of that community took him under her wing. That individual who'd never run for political office before, who toyed with the idea of being a mayor or even running for president Dennis Prager decided to come down those escalators with his beautiful wife, and most people, almost everyone except, you know, the odd caller to our show, wrote it off as a publicity stunt, as something to be laughed at, until he defeated every single— what was it, 16 or 17 GOP candidates Most of whom were just process politicians from within the so-called swamp.

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Listen to what Joe Biden said about the actions like the one we saw last night in Minneapolis to literally defund the police.

But I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that because they've already labeled us as being defund the police. Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you will occur, promise you. Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th, because that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we're talking about defunding the police. We're not, we're talking about holding them accountable.

Nothing screams holding them accountable better than stripping $8 million from the police department in Minneapolis, which of course, will result at the very top for this year's Christmas appeal.

It's almost always for the Salvation Army. Didn't work this year, but I have a terrific other one which I personally approved. Hundreds of thousands of kids have a parent or parents in prison, and this Angel Tree campaign sends them a gift from the parent, ostensibly, hopefully with a note. And it gives the kids a Bible. And for $22, that's, that's all it takes to get, to get one of these kids a gift and all, all these other things. Contact from the parent, hopefully, and a Bible. It's the best answer to the evils of the world in any event. So please do click on that banner at Angel Tree. Christmas is coming up next week, obviously, and whatever your faith, this is a beautiful gesture. $22 is something I would imagine virtually all my listeners could afford. It's only laziness, in my case too. It's a— when I don't do something like that, it has nothing to do with can I afford it, it's just taking the time. It will take you about 3 minutes. So I would, uh, I would love you to, uh, please do that. It's the Angel Tree campaign. The banner is at the top of my page, DennisPrager.com. So John in Chicago, you were on record as saying there was no cheating in any state. So fine, we differ on that.

No, I haven't seen any evidence of it, sir.

No, no, okay, so, okay, so, oh, all right, fine. That's not the— that's not the same thing. Do you— I'm asking what you believe. If you had to have your hand on whatever text you hold to be holy and swear before whatever God you believe in, would you say that to the best of your ability to ascertain truth in life, there was no cheating on behalf of the Democrats?

I will tell you again, sir, I have not seen any evidence of it.

But no, no, you know what, you haven't seen any evidence that, uh, did you see evidence that, uh, oh God, uh, what's his name, O.J. Simpson, uh, murdered his wife and, uh, and another person?

Sir, come on, come on, Dennis, may I ask you a question?

Well, no, no, wait, wait, come on, Dennis is not the answer. The, the jury said that— are we going to talk about the evidence now?

Is that the subject?

No, the subject is your evasion of my statement by talking about evidence. So I used evidence to show that your answer is an evasion.

You're evading the point of my call, sir. The, the man— but your last caller believes what he believes because of exactly what you're saying, right?

And he's a fool for not voting. I don't care what he believes. He's a fool for not voting. It is irrelevant. I have no role in that man's idiotic conclusion. Okay?

None.

It is a stupid, America-destroying idea for a Georgia Republican not to vote. It is a completely emotional, childish, puerile, immature, irresponsible, despicable idea. I have no role in that idiocy. I believe there was cheating. And the idea that you connect that to not voting for the possibility of the Democrats running all three branches of government, you are a giant fool. Not you, the caller, that man. I am not responsible for the fact that the man took belief one and translated it into asinine decision two. Thank you. Candace, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Hello.

Hi, Dennis. I hope you can hear me okay.

Um, I do.

I'm calling, I'm calling from Wisconsin. I am a poll worker and I have a couple points to make. Number one, I wish that guy were actually working the polls instead of being an armchair protester, which is useless to America. Number two, my second point is it's Even though I believe strongly and know so that the election commissioners cheated many states like Wisconsin out of this election because they passed rules that were not passed by the legislation, and that alone right there proves fraud. Okay. Number 2, they would not let GOP people work the polls. It's all union hacks. Okay. That's proof right there. My third point is you must vote. And the reason why, the reason why we know that voter fraud occurred is because more people voted than people who are registered. And if you don't get out and vote, we won't be able to have any clue, you know, that that happened again because it'll look like they actually won. So don't be a fool. You go out and you vote and you fight. And here's the other point. What if Trump actually does succeed and he actually gets into office and then we don't have the Senate? Georgia.

That's right, my dear. That is exactly right. Anyway, the notion that— I feel bad because he's not on the phone right now, but I— so not him, but there were— there, I battled this my whole life. All the Republicans, there's so this, there's so that. I'm as aware of the Republican party's flaws as anyone. I said for most, most of my career that when I became a Republican in the Reagan era, I went from the destructive party to the stupid party. I said that. I mean, any party that nominated in succession all of these Republicans to run for president, from George Bush Sr. to Mitt Romney, not one of them to the best of my knowledge, uh, even understanding what conservatism is. Many of them just fine people, but irrelevant, weak. But what— that I campaigned for all of them. I have a picture of John McCain and myself, uh, because I went around the country campaigning for every Republican nominee, whatever I thought of them as a nominee personally. Because when you have a binary choice, that's it. Oh, I won't support the Republican Party. Then you don't really believe the Democrats are destructive. That's the only— I don't care, you could say you believe they're destructive, but if the only alternative is even a wimpy Republican, wimpy Republicans are infinitely superior to destructive Democrats. Destructive Democrat is redundant. I don't know why this is not clear. I just really don't. I don't. But the human condition is a troubled one, and it's fun to feel good about yourself. Ah, it was a fraudulent election, so now I'll just watch the Democrats destroy my country. By not voting in Georgia.

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Is that 2020 will really go down as the year that the most powerful people on the planet, the most— the people that have the most money, the most influence, the most access to capital, that control the most powerful companies, they tried to make America in their image, and they largely succeeded. This is a hard thing for us to admit. It's a hard thing for us to admit that the masters of the universe, the masters of Menlo Park, if you go back in January all the way fast forward to today, just in 2020, they pulled off a decade of transformation in 11 months. Think about where we were back in January. Critical Race Theory, BLM Incorporated were considered radical movements and radical pieces of thought. Not at Google though. At Google and at YouTube and at the masters of Menlo Park, they considered Critical Race Theory to be a religious text. They considered Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis to be what I would view Isaiah and Elijah, prophets of what is to come, of some form of Hegelian dystopian nightmare. The country was not as digitized. Donald Trump was experiencing one of the greatest economies in American history, if not the greatest economy in American history.

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Last week on Sunday, you had the, um, a Republican judge in Michigan say to the Giuliani team that a third-party audit could go forward in Antrim County. Why is that important? Antrim County is where the 6,000 votes went from the Trump column to the Biden column. It was nearly a full 33% of the county that got switched in that, and we discovered it through a hand signature audit of the county that the, uh, the Republican— Michigan?

Yes.

And it was the first place, Eric, where we first heard the word Dominion Voting. It was, it was in that county, it was in that flip, it was in that switch. At the time, the Secretary of State in that state said that it was a clerical error, that a clerk made the mistake, and then they shut off all discussion of it. Well, a judge said, it's okay, you guys can go in and do a forensic examination of 22 voting machines there in Antrim. That was concluded last Sunday, a week ago. We were told we would get results last Tuesday. As of Friday, we were still awaiting those results, and the Attorney General in the state of Michigan had intervened, gone to the court and said, please side with us that they may not disclose.

But this is a utopian thing. It's childish. I'm angry at the Republicans, so let the Democrats win. Oh boy. I, I don't know what to say. Let's get some more Georgia calls. Derek in Atlanta, hello. Derek in Atlanta, hello.

Hi, how are you?

Okay.

Yes, I mean, I, I definitely voted. Um, I think it is, um, stupid that that last guy didn't vote. I'm a gay Republican and I voted. I had to early vote and it's just, it's gonna be very close unfortunately, and it shouldn't be, you know, because we know that the Democrat, that the Democratic side is bad and it just doesn't make any sense to me. It should be a no-brainer, but I think one of the The main concerns that I hear— oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.

No, no, I'm agreeing with you. It should be a no-brainer. That is correct.

Yep.

And I think, I think a lot of people, because like, um, like me being a conservative, I live in kind of, you know, a predominantly Democratic area, and people aren't willing to listen to the other side, and it's just a shame. You know, but the other side needs to kind of make more of an effort to reach out. But I guess you can blame a little bit of that on the media, because sometimes the media doesn't even—

of course, the media gives you one side. Anyway, we hear their side, they don't hear our side. I don't know any conservative who doesn't know every liberal argument and every leftist argument. They don't know any of ours. It's a huge difference. Wendy in Marietta, Georgia. Hello.

Hi, Dennis.

Hi.

Um, you made my life better. Just want to share that.

Thank you so much.

Okay, so I live in Marietta and I'm going to early vote. I haven't heard anybody in my small world talk about not voting. And I'm not even sure your caller earlier got that message from the right or the left.

Well, I don't know how many people he represents. I, I'm broadcasting about it because I fear— look, we can't afford to lose any votes. So the fact that I can't believe he's the only one who thinks that way. People are driven by emotions.

Unless they listen to you.

Good, good woman. That's right, that's the hope. I love reason. All right, Jane Hoboken, try to get me in the third hour anyway. Wendy, Derek, Tom, Jerry— I got those two— Mike, Barry, Cheryl, I wish I could take you right now. We go to the happiness hour which, to say the least, is somewhat needed.

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What could we have done to change the outcome? Now, what the Democrats did was to use the coronavirus as an excuse to loosen election rules, to make it easier and easier for people to vote, make it easier and easier for election fraud to be committed. And many of the things that they did were perfectly legal—

underhanded, but perfectly legal. Now, the previous election cycle, the Republicans lost 4 seats in Orange County, a county that used to be reliably Republican, got wiped out in Orange County largely because the Democrats employed a tactic known as ballot harvesting. Legal, underhanded, but it allows votes to be turned in later on if you've assisted a voter, uh, in filling out his or her ballot. Now obviously assisting somebody filling out his or her ballot is wrought with potential for fraud, but the Democrats pulled that off and they ended up snatching defeat from the jaw of fetching victory from the jaws of defeat for these races. So what do Republicans do? They didn't go BMW. They figured out what the Democrats did and engaged in the same kind of tactics. And guess what? All 4 of those seats are now back in Republican hands. So that's what we ought to be doing. I told you before that the Democrats' secret weapon was they got everybody who could fog up a vote to fog up a mirror to vote. And in my opinion, most people who've never voted are very likely Democrats. I think more Republicans are far more motivated, far more aware of what's going on than your average Democrat, and therefore the average non-voter or seldom voter is very likely to be a Democrat. And Democrats knew that and went out to get them. Well, there are a lot of them who are Republicans though. And did Republicans try and go out and get those? Figure out what these guys did and make the arguments persuasive.

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Trending now on the Charlie Kirk Show is that 2020 will really go down as the year that the most powerful people on the planet, the most— the people that have the most money, the most influence, the most access to capital, that control the most powerful companies, They tried to make America in their image, and they largely succeeded. This is a hard thing for us to admit. It's a hard thing for us to admit that the masters of the universe, the masters of Menlo Park, if you go back in January all the way, fast forward to today, just in 2020, they pulled off a decade of transformation. In 11 months. Think about where we were back in January. Critical race theory, BLM Incorporated were considered radical movements and radical pieces of thought. Not at Google though. At Google and at YouTube and at the masters of Menlo Park, they consider critical race theory to be a religious text. They considered Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis to be what I would view Isaiah and Elijah, prophets of what is to come, of some form of Hegelian dystopian nightmare. The country was not as digitized. Donald Trump was experiencing one of the greatest economies in American history, if not the greatest economy in American history.

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Last week on Sunday, you had the, um, a Republican judge in Michigan say to the Giuliani team that a third-party audit could go forward in Ann Arbor County. Why is that important? Ann Arbor County is where the 6,000 votes went from the Trump column to the Biden column. It was nearly a full 33% of the county that got switched in that, and we discovered it through a hand signature audit of the county that the, uh, the Republican— Michigan. Yes, and it was the first place, Eric, where we first heard the word Dominion Voting. It was, it was in that county, it was in that flip, it was in that switch. At the time, the Secretary of State in that state said that it was a clerical error, that a clerk made the mistake, and then they shut off all discussion of it. Well, a judge said, it's okay, you guys can go in and do a forensic examination of 22 voting machines there in Antrim. That was concluded last Sunday, a week ago. We were told we would get results last Tuesday. As of Friday, we were still awaiting those results, and the Attorney General in the state of Michigan had intervened, gone to the court and said, please side with us that they may not disclose the results of those audits. Now, why is that important? Well, the lead attorney for the independent audit team says that they saw conclusive proof that it wasn't a clerical error, that there was a computer connected to the tabulation system. And that it was actually provable through the forensic audit that a computer switched the votes. And it was only through the hand recount comparing signatures— they went to full signature recount— that they were able to establish what had really been the will of the voters in that county.

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Let's look at the last 4 years. Let's look at the last 40 years and ask the question that a former communist revolutionary asked: What is to be done? Well, that question must be approached with an adequate understanding of what happened 4 years ago in 2016, because it was such a strange occurrence, something that no man or woman could have predicted. How a reality TV star who was really, really not a member member of the Manhattan jet set, who was rejected by that jet set for the longest time until a certain member of that community took him under her wing.

That individual who'd never run for political office before, who All right everybody, it's the happiness hour and it's the one— let's see, next Friday, is that correct? What is today's date? Yeah, so next Friday is Christmas. So it'll be a pre-recorded show with a happiness hour, but— and then it'll be— and then it'll be, uh, Dr. Marmer. Oh great, so you people should tune in. It's a Christmas gift to you, Dr. Marmer. And then, uh, the— let's see, 25 and 7 is 32, so then the next Friday is New Year's. And that will be, uh, people are given off, uh, that day. So this is my last Happiness Hour, live Happiness Hour of the year. Uh, you know how much importance I attach to the Happiness Hour, which has never been canceled because of other news or because of news since I began broadcasting the Happiness Hour in 1999. When I say every week the happy make the world better, the unhappy make it worse, it sounds like a throwaway line. It is about as important a concept as you can have. The unhappy make it worse on a personal level because they make the people around them miserable— their children, their parents, their siblings, their co-workers, their friends. Their spouse, and they make the country and the world worse. Misery loves company, and so the miserable want others to be miserable. In fact, as a general rule— and it's not always true, and there are people who are unhappy who are very noble souls, I, I want you to know I, I recognize that— but I'm talking about The, the unhappy that revel in their unhappiness, as opposed to people who have bouts of unhappiness for physiological reasons or because of trauma in their lives. And I— that's a separate issue. But most of the time, the unhappy make the world worse. Let's put it this way: the happy make the world better. Is that obvious? Do happy people riot? Okay, just as an example. Do happy people rape? Do happy people loot, steal? So think, think about that. So this is a very important hour, and I want to talk to you in light of Christmas coming up next week and people debating Well, there's COVID and I don't know if I want to get together. Look, if you have comorbidities, you are a person who has reason to fear that you will be very sick or die if you contract COVID. If you are in that small group of people, I understand your hesitance. The rest of you, You should be having Christmas, just as you should have had Thanksgiving, as we did with 25 people. So I want to talk to you about holidays this Happiness Hour, the importance of holidays in a person's life in terms of the happiness of the individual and the happiness of the society. Both are exceedingly important. There has been a conscious or unconscious war on holidays, not just a war on Christmas, and if you deny that, you're lying to yourself. I'm not saying you're lying to me, but you are lying to yourself. It's amazing to me, where did I just hear this today? I'm in Florida. And I think as I left the hotel, nice young lady behind the desk— I assumed she was masked— uh, shit, you know, and, uh, have a happy holiday, not happy holidays. Correctly, Chanukkah is essentially over, and I mean, it's the last day today, so I don't think she was keeping to tabs on Hanukkah. Have a happy holiday. Now, we know it's interesting, we say Happy Halloween, say Happy Thanksgiving, we don't say happy holiday then, uh, or have a, have a happy fourth. Everything. Yeah, okay, you're saying that's because there's only one holiday, right? But so what is the other holiday when people say happy holiday? I think they're encompassing Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. They're encompassing Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. So that— this came through my earphones from my trustworthy engineer. So here's a question from my trustworthy engineer. Do you know one person who celebrates Kwanzaa? Okay, he's laughing. That ends that issue. So Hanukkah is over. Will people say for the next week, happy, a Merry Christmas, now that Hanukkah is over? We say Happy New Year. Why not happy holiday for that? Look, uh, in case that's not proof, the, uh, the renaming of the office Christmas party to holiday party should be proof enough that there has been a deliberate attempt to suppress mention of Christmas. It is rare in urban areas today to say Merry Christmas. I say it. I'm Jewish. I celebrate Hanukkah, and I still say Merry Christmas to my fellow citizens. When I get off a plane, or wherever it might be, at a Starbucks or anywhere else, I will say Merry Christmas because it is a national holiday and because of the subject of this Happiness Hour: holidays are essential to your happiness. There was a time in American life when July 4th was a really big deal. It was a celebration of the founding of the freest country on Earth. Yes, the freest country on Earth had slavery. What point are you making by making that point? Since every country on Earth had slavery, what is your point? We abolished it. We abolished it and we We killed vast numbers of free people in order to abolish it. And why did we abolish it? Because of the founding documents that said all men are created equal, all are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to be more precise. That is why it was abolished. The preoccupation with slavery has one end, and that is the smearing of the American experiment by the bored, aimless, unhappy who want meaning in their lives because they don't have any. The holidays— holidays in life are, are this break. I have a holiday every single week, literally a holy day. It is a major source of my strength, my happiness, my peace of mind, and that is my Sabbath. Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, I leave the world and I enter it with either family or friends every week, and it is an incredible strength giver to me. There is something more to life than just making a living, as great as that is to make a living, and I am a big believer in it. Earn is one of my favorite words, as you know. But most people don't have this holiday every week. It's in the Ten Commandments. It's the only ritual in the Ten Commandments. You might want to give it some thought if you respect the the Ten Commandments, why don't you take that break every week? Why? But aside from that, aside from having every week, then there are all the religious and American holidays that fill my life. In fact, my view is Judaism has too many holidays. But better too many than too few. So people who don't have Christmas, don't have Thanksgiving, and don't have July 4th, what do they have? They just have what? Winter solstice. My God, that is so meaningful. Look at that, winter solstice. I wish you a merry winter winter solstice, and may your spring equinox be equally meaningful. It's— there's no comparison. This notion of, well, Dr. Fauci is not going to be with his kids for the first time in 38 years. So fine, that's his decision. If he thinks he, uh, he can contract a death I thought he just took the, uh, the vaccine. Didn't he? Didn't he just take it? Why isn't he with his daughters? 1-800-PRAGER-776. The importance of holidays.

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What could we have done to change the outcome? Now, what the Democrats did was to use the coronavirus as an excuse to loosen election rules, to make it easier and easier for people to vote, make it easier and easier for election fraud to be committed.

And many of the things that they did were perfectly legal, underhanded but perfectly legal. Now, the previous election cycle, the Republicans lost 4 seats in Orange County, a county that used to be reliably Republican. Got wiped out in Orange County, largely because the Democrats employed a tactic known as ballot harvesting. Legal, underhanded, but it allows votes to be turned in later on if you've assisted a voter, uh, in filling out his or her ballot. Now, obviously, assisting somebody filling out his or her ballot is wrought with potential for fraud, but the Democrats pulled that off, and they ended up snatching defeat from the jaw— snatching victory from the jaws of defeat for these races. So what do Republicans do? They didn't go BMW. They figured out what the Democrats did and engaged in the same kind of tactics. And guess what? All 4 of those seats are now back in Republican hands. So that's what we ought to be doing. I told you before that the Democrats' secret weapon was they got everybody who could fog up a vote to fog up a mirror to vote. And in my opinion, most people who've never voted are very likely Democrats. I think more Republicans are far more motivated, far more aware of what's going on. Than your average Democrat, and therefore the average non-voter or seldom voter is very likely to be a Democrat. And Democrats knew that and went out to get them. Well, there are a lot of them who are Republicans though. And did Republicans try and go out and get those? Figure out what these guys did and make the arguments persuasive.

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Trending now on the Charlie Kirk Show is that 2020 will really go down as the year that the most powerful people on the planet, the most— the people that have the most money, the most influence, the most access to capital, that control the most powerful companies, they tried to make America in their image, and they largely succeeded. This is a hard thing for us to admit. It's a hard thing for us to admit that the masters of the universe, the masters of Menlo Park, if you go back in January, all the way fast forward to today, just in 2020, they pulled off a decade of transformation. In 11 months. Think about where we were back in January. Critical race theory, BLM Incorporated were considered radical movements and radical pieces of thought. Not at Google though. At Google and at YouTube and at the masters of Menlo Park, They considered critical race theory to be a religious text. They considered Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis to be what I would view Isaiah and Elijah, prophets of what is to come, of some form of Hegelian dystopian nightmare. The country was not as digitized. Donald Trump, was experiencing one of the greatest economies in American history, if not the greatest economy in American history.

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Yeah, let's hear about the happy Christmas tree. Okay, y'all. It's the Happiness Hour, the last live one of the year, because next Friday is Christmas. Have a special Happiness Hour repeat with Dr. Marmer, the psychiatrist at UCLA that I have periodically on the Happiness Hour. And then the next one is the— is New Year's, and again, that will be a a highlight show because we want to give people off. If I show up, then a lot of people have to work, and I don't think that that's, uh, that's right. Anyway, it's good for me to have a vacation, and so I just wanted you to understand. So I chose as my topic the importance of holidays. We live in the age of anti-anti-wisdom, not only non-wisdom but anti-wisdom, and there's just the thought apparently that holidays are not important. July 4th was critical throughout most of American history. Parades, bands, music, dancing, people getting together for a meal. It was a very special day for most of American history. And that's, uh, that became eventually a day for hot dogs and hamburgers and that, that that somewhat ended that as meaningful, but at least it existed. Of course, there were serious holidays like Memorial Day. People would visit graves of fallen soldiers. That's pretty much died for the woke anyway. They, as far as the left is concerned, they died in vain. Protect this systemically racist country? God, what fools for that flag that we wouldn't even stand for in the national anthem? So just think about it. Ask a— not a liberal— ask a left-wing relative, do you think that by and large Americans who died fighting for this country died for no good reason? And if they died for a good reason, then what is that good reason, and shouldn't we perpetuate it. Back to the holidays issue. So Christmas is coming up and people are debating, do we get together? And they debated before Thanksgiving. The price you pay not getting together is enormous. I just want you to understand that there's no calculation of cost and benefit. Well, you know, better safe than sorry. Well, I don't know if it's better safe than any holiday is a good idea. Better safe than Christmas? Better safe than Thanksgiving? Really? Maybe. Depends on the individual. Now, I, I raised this issue of, uh, Dr. Fauci or others. Some, some public figures have gotten already have gotten a vaccine, are they, are they going to be gathering with family? Is it, is it that risky? Do you know what the risks are? Alan, send me the, the risk table again. I think you, I think it came last night. The chances of your dying at a— if you are any given age, the chances of your dying from COVID the, the minuscule, minuscule chances. So for that, you will forego Christmas because you were panicked by CNN and the New York Times, who, who are conveyors of hate and, uh, and fear. That's the basic jobs of the New York Times and CNN and the rest of the gang. I'm just using them as the paradigms. Are we, uh, Sean, are we on? Okay, yeah, good, fine, excellent. Oh yes, that's right, I saw a message from earlier. Yeah, we're fine. So I'm broadcasting from Florida, that's the reason I asked. Uh, here, so here I just want you to know some survival rate, uh, data in case you're still debating. COVID infection survival rates. This is if you get infected, okay? This doesn't even include the non-infected, which would make it even smaller. So your chances if you are under 65, 90— see, 99.5%. So what does that mean? You have a 0.05%, and, and if you have to have a comorbidity basically to die. That's under 65. By the way, 80, if you're over 80 and female, you have a 94% chance of, over 80 and female, over 80 and male, 89%. That's if you get infected. All right, so, uh, it's the, uh, infection fatality rates there. That's what they are. There it is. So it's point— it's one-half of 1%, 60 to 64. I mean, I, beyond that, it's, it's, it's, it's truly infinitesimally small. Get younger than that. And when I see young people panicked into, into mask wearing outdoors, I just feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for the society to have raised such a scared generation that is oblivious to facts, led by the nose by, I don't know, by tweets. And they don't know that they the statistics on this. I want you to have holidays. I want you to have it beyond COVID. They are a very important part of life for happiness, and there's no substitute for holidays. People don't get together on any regular basis without holidays. What is the— what is the secular equivalent to Christmas? Well, you could have a secular Christmas, but there's no alternative to Christmas. People don't get together every year and celebrate it with family and friends for the winter solstice or Groundhog Day. That's what I want you to have in your life. And look, I told you the importance. I have one every week.

Week.

And I will be having it with family tonight in, in Florida, and then with my other son next week and coming in from Pennsylvania to LA. And of course I have it with friends the rest of the year, and it has kept me sane and happy through this horrible period in American history. As I've told you, I've gotten together every Friday night with friends from the beginning. I have not observed one lockdown order from tyrants who are fools. I don't accept irrational orders. And you know what? America is better for having people like me than Newsom. I am better for this country than Gavin Newsom. I'll take your calls. Happiness Hour, Dennis Prager Show.

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Listen to what Joe Biden said. About the actions like the one we saw last night in Minneapolis to literally defund the police.

But I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that because they've already labeled us as being defund the police. Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you will occur, promise you. Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th, because that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we're talking about defunding the police. We're not, we're talking about holding them accountable.

Nothing screams holding them accountable better than stripping $8 million from the police department in Minneapolis, which of course, will result in— here's how this works. If you don't have funds for the police, if you funnel them into, uh, I guess mental health counselors, and good luck handling a raging violent criminal. Good luck with that if you're a mental health counselor. Maybe you can sit there and start singing folk music to somebody who's, you know, waving a machete around. Maybe you could go back and ask them if they wet the bed when they were a child as they're, you know, on a rampage. Oh, we're not. But this is a very important clip from Biden. You've got to know exactly his intention.

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Is there anybody in the business of film criticism who you admire for their craft?

Guy like Joe Morgenstern with Wall Street Journal. He has liked some of my work. He has liked some of my movies. He has not liked some. And not like me in some. But all that, when he doesn't like it, he's constructive about it. Meaning, I read, I'll read bad criticisms and I can tell in the first line that, oh, this person had it in for me before they even saw the movie. They had already started this bad review before they saw the movie. So, you know what, that's not really a criticism. That's that person's hang-up. But when I can read somebody that has a good criticism, and Joe does, I think, constructive criticism. And here's why I didn't like the movie, or here's why Matthew's performance didn't translate for me. I always learned something from it.

And is it something that you do— will you study reviews from serious people after a film comes out in order to improve your craft? Because they're good at theirs.

Yes, yes, I have done this. Look, obviously it's more fun to read a good review, and obviously when you, when you do your work and you— and I feel like I did it well, and I read a good review, I think those are— those people are smarter. But I went away, um, 8 years ago, and I had my publicist gather every bad review that's ever been written on my performances, which is almost 50 at the time.

That's not in the book, huh?

It was a— no, it's not. I didn't put it in there. Maybe it could be in the next one. I went away and read every single one and kind of learned more from the bad reviews away than I did from the good ones.

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Huge number of Democrats who believe that the Happiness Hour, Dennis Prager's second hour every Friday. You can hear about 15, 20 years of Happiness Hours at pragertopia.com. Pragertopia.com. It's a great Christmas gift, the subscription to the show with no commercials, hear at any time they want. Pragertopia.com. It's Great gift, great for you. Then Gupta, uh, not strike me as a, uh, as a profound man. Doctor on MSNBC, I guess. He tweeted out, I get my vaccine tomorrow. After the second dose, 21 days later, I will continue masking, distancing and avoiding travel until Dr. Fauci says otherwise. Wow. And they, they laugh at the— at those of us who believe in God and take dictates from a book called the Bible. But Dr. Fauci says otherwise. Oh, Dr. Fauci says that I should continue. This is what this Gupta said on TV. I played it for you. You should mask and distance yourself even after getting the vaccine.

Wow.

Yeah, well, there you go. Wow. Hey, these are impressive people. It's okay. New England Journal of Medicine just published today, uh, study, quote-unquote study, a report that sex or gender should not be on this birth certificate anymore because it's not fair to the intersexual and transgender. That was in the New England Journal of Medicine. The sciences have been corrupted like journalism has and everything else by the left. It's healthy to, uh, Demonstrate, right? To demonstrate en masse against racism. That was a scientific declaration. Thousands in the sciences. All right, everybody, let's see. A lot of people differ with me, so you get on first. Jim in St. Petersburg, Florida. Thank you.

Hi, uh, this is Jim from St. Petersburg, and I'm calling in response to your discussion on the vaccine. Uh, the surgeons or the medical professionals are suggesting that we hold off on celebrations. Uh, we're watching the, uh, emergency rooms and hospitals that are filling with patients. The workers there are getting sick. They're getting the vaccines in, but not— it's not perfect yet. And we're trying to just keep people safe. If they can wait another year— are you there?

Yep, I'm here.

Oh, okay.

Uh, so just keep people safe another year. Uh, patience. I mean, we all want to be happy, sure, but be happy when everybody can get safe because the, the proof of the vaccine is not, not total yet. So you just want to take it easy. And, and the people getting vaccine, it's not, uh, getting to everybody. So still—

so do you— will you, will you follow the advice? Are you going to get the vaccine?

I'm going to get the vaccine.

Yeah.

Right. After you do, will you Wait, wait, please let me ask you a question. After you do, will you get— will you wear a mask?

Yes, I will.

And the reason?

Because it's advised by the professionals, by the— by the—

what if the professionals are medical professionals? What about the professionals who— that's not true what you just said. There are many professionals who think that you're, you're a fool if you wear a mask. You have decided which professionals to listen to. To. So you are deciding, the professionals are not deciding. Don't fool yourself. I admit it, for me, I follow the professionals I trust. You follow the professionals you trust. But the professionals you trust, I think, are fools, and the professionals I trust, you think, are fools. Do you think hydroxychloroquine is a waste?

I'm not, uh, judging anybody, uh, as full—

okay, I am.

Okay.

I'm telling you, forgive me, I need to say something to you. You are not, you are fooling yourself when you say you're following the professionals. Vast numbers of professionals don't agree with the professionals you have chosen to follow. So you have made a choice just as I have. I'm not yelling at you, I'm not blaming you. I want you to be honest with yourself. It is a lie to say you're following the professionals. You are following some professionals?

Some, including my own primary care physician. I was at my physical last week and he suggested to continue.

Okay, all right, gotta take a break. You needed to give me a heads up.

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Let's look at the last 4 years. Let's look at the last 40 years and ask the question that a former communist revolutionary asked. What is to be done? Well, that question must be approached with an adequate understanding of what happened 4 years ago in 2016, because it was such a strange occurrence, something that no man or woman could have predicted. How a reality TV star who was really, really not a member of the Manhattan jet set, who was rejected by that jet set for the longest time until a certain member of that community took him under her wing. That individual who'd never run for political office before, who toyed with the idea of being a mayor or even running for president, decided to come down those escalators with his beautiful wife. And most people, almost everyone except, you know, the odd caller to our show, wrote it off as a publicity stunt, as something to be laughed at. Until he defeated every single— what was it, 16 or 17 GOP candidates, most of whom were just process politicians from within the so-called swamp.

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Listen to what Joe Biden said about the actions like the one we saw last night in Minneapolis to literally defund the police.

But I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that because they've already labeled us as being defund the police. Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you will occur, promise you. Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th, because that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we're talking about defunding the police. We're not. We're talking about holding them accountable.

Nothing screams holding them accountable better than stripping $8 million from the police department in Minneapolis, which of course will result in— here's how this works. If you don't have funds for the police, if you funnel them into, uh, I guess mental health counselors, and good luck handling a raging violent criminal Good luck with that if you're a mental health counselor. Maybe you can sit there and start singing folk music to somebody who's, you know, waving a machete around. Maybe you could go back and ask them if they wet the bed when they were a child as they're, you know, on a rampage. Oh, we're not. But this is a very important clip from Biden. You've got to know exactly his intention.

All right, my friends, Dennis Prager here. Happiness hour on the importance of holidays, which I would do even if there were no COVID issue. The subject is of surpassing importance. You need holidays. July 4th used to be big. Memorial Day used to be big. Not happy, but big. Veterans Day, Lincoln's birthday, Washington's birthday. They were clobbered in the Nixon era. He did a lot of damage. And they got stupid President's Day, which means nothing, absolutely nothing. Might as well be called Aardvark Day. At least then it would be specific. We'd be celebrating aardvarks, but nobody knows what presidents were celebrating on Presidents' Day. And then of course Christmas, Thanksgiving— think, it's— they're being clobbered. New Year's is still around. People need holidays. And I ask, I ask people to get together for Thanksgiving, as I did. 25 people in my home. Asking people to get together for Christmas. And I want to comment on the last call, this notion the professionals say. It's really— it's, it's religion. The professionals say. And so you— God did not give you evolution, if you prefer, did not give you a mind. You, you, you are not allowed to think. What if the professional is a fool? Are all professionals non-fools? Is there any correlation between professional knowledge and being wise? Any correlation whatsoever? Is there any correlation between being an epidemiologist and being wise, any more than being an Uber driver and being wise? No, of course not. So why do we listen to them when there are other professionals who say the opposite? So let's be honest. I am honest. I choose the professionals that I wish to believe based on common sense and wisdom. And if you don't believe my professionals, you believe yours. I believe the professionals who say that we would save 100,000 lives had we given hydroxychloroquine, zinc, ivermectin early on when people get COVID. I believe them, okay? And you don't. Many of you don't. Fine. But don't say the professionals. That's a— it's just you're fooling yourself and me. You know, you can't fool me on that one. You're fooling yourself. You choose the professionals you want to believe. I choose the professionals I want to believe. I don't say the professionals. That's the difference. Elliot in Staten Island, hello.

Yeah, hi Dennis, how are you? A happy Hanukkah. It's only a few more hours left here in New York. Um, I just wanted to tell you, you know, you have the happiness hour, but you sound angry. But your anger makes me happy because I'm listening to a rational person Talking about irrational people. Now I want to talk to you about the following: the science. Uh, my aunts, my uncles, my grandparents on my father's side followed the scientists all the way to Auschwitz. Those are the scientists that were directing the Nazi regime. So it was very interesting, you know, to look at it. Uh, and talking about, you know, vaccines vaccine. And one of the pulmonary doctors that I do work with here in New York, he asked me if I'm going to take the vaccine. I said no. He says, you sure? I said, no, I got a mask on. You got a mask? We're equal. I said, if you take the vaccine, are you going to wear a mask? He says, you have to because you're a carrier. I said, but last year you took the vaccine for the flu, you didn't wear a mask. Should you wear a mask? So he had a stumped look on his face and he said, okay, never mind.

Exactly. It shows you the, the people we are working with in the sciences, that any of them would say wear a mask after getting vaccinated. It— the love of control control over other human beings is, is a pandemic. That's, that's what I would define it as. 1A Prager 776, the importance of holidays. You know, this notion of science uber alles, health uber alles, nothing else matters. It's like it doesn't matter how many lives are ruined by the lockdown. Like I've been saying this since March. It doesn't matter how many are starving, how many are out of work, how many have lost their businesses, how many have OD'd on drugs, how much vast increase in child abuse and spousal abuse. Like nothing matters. The only thing that matters— we don't get data on that. The only thing that matters is COVID. Where is the one here? Yeah, I want this one. Good. Robert in Redondo Beach, California. Hello, Robert in Redondo Beach. Hello. All right, Robert going once. I will read Robert's call. His wife is pregnant. Should we still risk going to a company holiday party? I never go to holiday parties. I go to Christmas parties. But anyway, that— I never tell people what to do on health matters. I, I give recommendations in the general but not in the specific. I, I don't want to have that burden on me of telling you what you should do with regard to your pregnant wife. But I will read to you from the NIH, which I'm sure people— National Institutes of Health, uh, it is on that very subject of pregnant women and COVID. And It says, now a large observational study has taken a more comprehensive look at the issue and published some reassuring news for parents-to-be. The vast majority of women who test positive for COVID-19 during their pregnancies won't develop serious health complications. What's more, it's also unlikely that their newborns will become infected with SARS-CoV-2. This is in the Journal of American Medical Association. So we will return. Dennis Prager on the importance of holidays.

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Huge number of Democrats who believe that the Russians changed the outcome of the election in 2016, but they're just flabbergasted that Donald Trump is daring to suggest that this election might have been rigged or might be fraudulent. No matter what the Russians may have done, I say to my friends who are listening to the program, the Democrats, no matter what the Russians have done or the Chinese have done or the Iranians have done, and clearly they've all have tried to interfere with our elections, it pales in comparison to the interference, and I put that in quotes, by the mainstream media that you guys gobble up.

Hunter Biden, New York Post breaks this story days before the election. This is a bombshell, and it isn't because Hunter Biden did anything illegal necessarily. It's because Joe Biden has for months denied knowing anything whatsoever about his son's business, let alone that he met with any of his son's colleagues, business colleagues, business associates. And it turns out Tony Bobulinski, the longtime business associate of Hunter who broke with Hunter, goes public and says he met with Joe Biden for some time and also worked with Joe Biden's brother. And when he said to Joe Biden's brother, look, isn't this kind of dicey for you to be involved in something like this? Joe Biden's brother said, we have plausible deniability. So the story broke, and what did the mainstream media say? They said this is Russian disinformation. You have a— you have the CEO of Twitter suppressing the story, admitting he suppressed the story, and he admitted they shouldn't have done it, but the story was spiked.

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The rich are richer. Google and Facebook are more powerful than ever before. Normal people have had their voice suppressed. Anywhere between 250,000 to 275,000 to 300,000 people have died from the Chinese coronavirus. The lockdowns have killed dreams, ambitions, and human beings through suicide and other means. How did all of this happen? Aristotle famously said that we are the speaking beings. If we do not have the ability to speak and communicate, we are no different than the animals of the wild. Aristotle was a scientist. He was— some would call him What's the bookshelf for?

For putting books in.

Make it look nice.

Who's gonna see it? Nobody. Yes, the importance of holidays in the unwise culture in which we live. Even before COVID they were losing importance for people, but it is particularly important now. If you are truly vulnerable, don't get together with people. But, uh, I don't trust any, any of the authorities that the people are telling me about. They lost it when they lost it. Now even if you get the vaccine, you have to social distance and wear a mask. What the hell do I want the vaccine for then? I still have to live this, this awful life. See, again, there's no cost-benefit analysis. The cost of people Wearing masks is humans are dehumanized. That's why I oppose the veil in the Muslim countries. It dehumanizes women. You can't have it both ways. If you think the veil doesn't have any effect on society, then the mask has no effect on society. If you think the veil does have a deleterious effect, then so does the mask. At least be honest about it. Caleb in Richardson, Texas. Hello, Mr.

Prager. Always good to hear your voice. How are you doing today, sir?

I'm well, thank you.

My question, uh, originally was for the Happiness Hour, uh, but I find it curious that yet again here we are having a conversation about these masks. No, no, no.

So please, I took your— I took your call because of your question. So if you don't want to ask a question, you told the screener—

nope.

Okay.

Yes, sir.

I'll go ahead.

I'll go ahead and ask. Um, my question today is, what advice would you give to someone who feels that, um, for themselves to feel or to express happiness would be inappropriate due to the times we're living in? And with so many other of our fellow citizens wondering how they're going to keep their businesses open or afford Christmas presents due to their lack of income, what kind of advice would you give them?

Wait, there— well, the first— there were two separate questions as I understand it. Why would we celebrate while so many of our fellow citizens are suffering? And then what if you can't afford to celebrate it? Those are two separate questions, am I right?

Yes, sir.

Okay, fine. If the issue is you can't celebrate while others suffer, then you can never celebrate Never since, since Adam. Okay, and I'm not being cute. If others' suffering precludes my celebrating life, then there is no time in history— there isn't, there wasn't 10 minutes when I could celebrate. People are always suffering tragically. I'm trying to reduce suffering. That's the greatest intention of all of my work. Now call in on any subject under the sun, and Merry Christmas.

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What could we have done to change the outcome? Now, what the Democrats did was to use the coronavirus as an excuse to loosen election rules, to make it easier and easier for people to vote, make it easier and easier for election fraud to be committed.

And many of the things that they did were perfectly legal, underhanded but perfectly legal. Now, the previous election cycle, the Republicans lost 4 seats in Orange County, a county that used to be reliably Republican, got wiped out in Orange County, largely because the Democrats employed a tactic known as ballot harvesting. Legal, underhanded, but it allows votes to be turned in later on if you've assisted a voter, uh, in filling out his or her ballot. Now obviously assisting somebody filling out his or her ballot is wrought with potential for fraud, but the Democrats pulled that off and they ended up snatching defeat from the jaw— snatching victory from the jaws of defeat for these races. So what do Republicans do? They didn't go BMW. They figured out what the Democrats did and engaged in the same kind of tactics. And guess what? All All 4 of those seats are now back in Republican hands. So that's what we ought to be doing. I told you before that the Democrats' secret weapon was they got everybody who could fog up a vote to fog up a mirror to vote. And in my opinion, most people who've never voted are very likely Democrats. I think more Republicans are far more motivated, far more aware of what's going on than your average Democrat. And therefore, the average non-voter or seldom voter, very likely to be a Democrat, and Democrats knew that and went out to get them. Well, there are a lot of them who are Republicans though, and did Republicans try and go out and get those? Figure out what these guys did and make the arguments persuasive.

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Is that 2020 will really go down as the year that the most powerful people on the planet, the most— the people that have the most money, the most influence, the most access to capital, that control the most powerful companies, they tried to make America in their image, and they largely succeeded. This is a hard thing for us to admit. It's a hard thing for us to admit that the masters of the universe, the masters of Menlo Park, if you go back in January all the way fast forward to today, just in 2020, they pulled off a decade of transformation in 11 months. Think about where we were back in January. Critical Race Theory, BLM Incorporated were considered radical movements and radical pieces of thought. Not at Google though. At Google and at YouTube and at the Masters of Menlo Park, they considered Critical Race Theory to be a religious text. They considered Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis to be what I would view Isaiah and Elijah, prophets of what is to come, of some form of Hegelian dystopian nightmare. The country was not as digitized. Donald Trump was experiencing one of the greatest economies in American history, if not the greatest economy in American history.

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Last week on Sunday, you had the, um, a Republican judge in Michigan say to the Giuliani team that a third-party audit could go forward in Ann Arbor County. Why is that important? Ann Arbor County is where the 6,000 votes went from the Trump column to the Biden column. It was nearly a full 33% of the county that got switched in that, and, and we discovered it through a hand signature audit of the county that the, uh, the Republican— Michigan. Yes, and it was the first place, Eric, where we first heard the word Dominion Voting. It was, it was in that county, it was in that flip, it was in that switch. At the time, the Secretary of State in that state said that it was a clerical error, that a clerk made the mistake, and then they shut off all discussion of it. Well, a judge said, it's okay, you guys can go in and do a forensic examination of 22 voting machines there in Antrim. That was concluded last Sunday, a week ago. We were told we would get results last Tuesday. As of Friday, we were still awaiting those results, and the attorney general in the state of Michigan had intervened, gone to the court and said, please side with us that they may not disclose the results of those audits. Now, why is that important? Well, the lead attorney for the independent audit team says that they saw conclusive proof that it wasn't a clerical error, that there was a computer connected to the tabulation system. And that it was actually provable through the forensic audit that a computer switched the votes. And it was only through the hand recount comparing signatures. They went to full signature recount that they were able to establish what had really been the will of the voters in that county.

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Let's look at the last 4 years. Let's look at the last 40 years and ask the question that a former communist revolutionary asked: What is to be done? Well, that question must be approached with an adequate understanding of what happened 4 years ago in 2016, because it was such a strange occurrence, something that no man or woman could have predicted— how a reality TV star who was really, really not a member member of the Manhattan jet set who was rejected Okay, everybody, this is the final hour of the broadcast week.

I'm Dennis Prager, wishing you a Merry Christmas and praying that you have one. And unless you have very real reasons to believe that you'd be infected and die— there are very few of you to whom that would apply who are under 65, and the vast majority of you over 65, it doesn't apply to— then you should have a Merry Christmas to every extent possible. People who tell you that you have to wear masks and social distance after getting vaccinated are people you shouldn't be listening to. If that is not self-negating as morons with, with a tyrannical and anti-human impulse, then nothing is. What, what if they told you to stay in bed? Is there some point when you would say these are fools talking to me when there are so many other scientists who say this is ridiculous? Why isn't it common sense? If you get vaxxed, is there any other vaccine that people were told to wear a mask after getting? So I want you to have a Merry Christmas. And I did the Happiness Hour on the importance of holidays, so I shan't repeat those themes. But this is the hour You— what was that, Sean? I did use shan't. I wonder if I've used shan't before, now that I think of it. I shan't use— that's right, that's shall not, by the way, in case you're curious. Like can't is cannot contraction, shan't is shall not contraction. Laughing at myself, just in case you're curious. As to my laughter. And he who can laugh at himself is a luckier person. All right, this is the time for you to ask about anything. And Lucy in Scottsdale, Arizona, you inaugurate the hour. Hi.

Hi, Dennis, uh, a fellow Brooklynite actually, but now in Arizona. Um, I just wanted you to clarify— I'm not I'm not sure if I'm saying the word correctly, but Sheol, or what the Jewish people believe about the afterlife.

Are they with God? Is there no hell? Where do they go if they only believe in heaven?

Right. Well, that was an interesting last statement you made, if they only believe in heaven. Yeah, so that's another question that you're posing.

I guess.

Yeah, that's fine. I just want to make it all clear for me. All right. Okay. I thank you. I thank you. And I'm going to answer that now because it's a very important call that you have raised. Okay, so here it goes. Jews and non-Jews should never confuse what Jews believe with what Judaism believes. This is not an insult. It's not an attack. It's not a criticism. It's just a statement of fact. Most Jews are secular, so what most Jews believe is irrelevant to Judaism. Judaism is a religion. But so that if you want to know what most religious Jews believe, they believe in the afterlife as much as they believe in God. So anyone who doesn't believe in an afterlife does not believe in a just God. God. They believe in a cruel, unjust God. God made a world of suffering and there is nothing afterwards. Not only that, he's sort of a God that is playing with humans. Yeah, I'll give you this blink of an eye of a lifetime and that's it. Bye-bye. I mean, so, you know, existence is between oblivion. That's, that's what the secular view would be of existence. The, the biblical view— the Bible, the Hebrew Bible does not spend much time on the afterlife because it wants us to be preoccupied with this life, which is exactly correct.

No shit.

No, but it speaks of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, maybe others, that when after they died, they joined their people. And that was, uh, clearly, even though they may have been buried very far from any relative, how did they join their ancestors? So that's a very strong I have a lot about that in my Bible commentary, The Rational Bible. But the most important point— there are two important points in what I said. If you don't believe in an afterlife, you don't believe in a good God, which is fine. I'm not blaming you, but you have to be intellectually honest. And two, there's a total— there's no relationship often, not always, but often between what Jews believe and what Judaism believes. Believes. Okay, let's go to Jay in Hoboken, New Jersey. Hello, Jay.

Yeah, I like to know who exactly are the Bolsheviks in the Democrat Party that are pushing for Bolshevism and the command economy and turning all farmers into kulaks.

Not yet, but the desire to move this country to an ever more powerful state and suppress speech is what reminds me of Bolshevism.

Uh, that really doesn't— I'm asking who?

Uh, the, uh, virtually the entire Democratic Party, the New York Times, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, the entire left. Liberals are not very—

the very bourgeois accused by the leftists that you villainize, New York Times is pushing for Bolshevism.

Yeah, insofar as it is pushing for suppression of free speech, which I consider the most important freedom in the world, yes.

When you mean suppression of free speech, you mean they want government action to deny you the right?

No, not government action, private action. This is the first example. This is. How are you. No.

Do you want me to answer?

If you don't want me to answer, I won't.

You.

You have the.

No, I'm not. Because I'm trying to. I'm trying to work around the logic that you're giving me.

That's clear. That you're working around it. I wish you would work with. Yeah, go ahead.

Yeah, tell me how. How a private company. Notice a private company, then we'd be promoting socialism, uh, Bolshevism, if Bolshevism is state control, right? So it kind of negates each other. So what?

No, they don't. The, the power to, to suppress speech in America today is in private hands, not in the government's hands. I don't even know how the government would suppress free speech. I know how the— I know how private companies do. My free speech—

so you need— so, okay, so is this about YouTube? Like, you really need YouTube to express your thoughts?

I'll show you. All right, so wait, wait, wait. So before I answer that, you acknowledge with me that Twitter, YouTube, Facebook are suppressing free speech? Do you acknowledge that colleges are suppressing free speech?

They suppress me when I— I guess I can make the argument that they suppress me when they didn't deny me to post stuff up.

Yes, that's right.

Are they a private—

wait, you're changing the subject. Do you acknowledge that they are suppressing— yes, you— all right, let me speak. I've let you speak twice as much as I have.

Okay.

Do you acknowledge, yes or no, that they are suppressing free speech?

I'm not going to use the word suppressing.

If you mean they choose to censor, as like you would like to make it out— Yes. So that when— in other words, I'll give you an example. So doctors appeared before the US Supreme Court, I believe it was, and they promoted hydroxychloroquine. It was removed the same day by Twitter. Is that, is that a good example to you, a valid example of suppression of free speech?

Let me, let me, let me answer it. Can I answer it in my way?

That's why I asked you. No, answer it in the way that people would regard it as an answer.

So, okay, so if you come to my house and you tell my kids— let's just say I had kids— and you tell my kids something that I don't want them to be told, do I not have the right to censor you? You're going into someone's house.

Okay, so fine, so that's your analogy. You agree with me, they censor free speech. They think we're kids.

Yeah, but they have that right.

And they're the adults. That's Bolshevism.

But that's not Bolshevism.

Why isn't that? The primary aspect of totalitarianism, left or right, is the suppression of free speech. Would you prefer that it was called private factions?

No, the primary agenda of totalitarianism is total control of the populace. It doesn't matter.

That's correct. And that is what I believe is what is taking place in America today. All leftism in all of history has been totalitarian. I have said this all of my life. Liberals are anti-totalitarian. Conservatives are anti-totalitarian. Every leftist is a totalitarian waiting for the time that he can in fact express it.

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Listen to what Joe Biden said about the actions like the one we saw last night in Minneapolis to literally defund the police.

But I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that, because they've already labeled us as being defund the police. Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you will occur, promise you, just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th, because that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country. Saying that we're talking about defunding the police. We're not. We're talking about holding them accountable.

Nothing screams holding them accountable better than stripping $8 million from the police department in Minneapolis, which of course will result in— here's how this works. If you don't have funds for the police, if you funnel them into, uh, I guess mental health counselors, and good luck handling a raging, violent criminal. Good luck with that if you're a mental health counselor. Maybe you can sit there and start singing folk music to somebody who's, you know, waving a machete around. Maybe you could go back and ask them if they wet the bed when they were a child as they're, you know, on a rampage. Oh, we're not. But this is a very important clip from Biden. You've got to know exactly his intention.

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Is there anybody in the business of film criticism who you admire for their craft?

I like Joe Morgenstern with Wall Street Journal. He has liked some of my work, he has liked some of my movies, he has not liked some and not liked me in some. But all that— when he doesn't like it, he's constructive about it. Meaning, I read— I'll read bad criticisms and I can tell in the first line that, oh, this person had it in for me before they even saw the movie. They had already started this bad review before they saw the movie. So, you know what, that's not really a criticism. That's that person's hang-up. But when I can read somebody that has a good criticism, and Joe does, I think, a constructive criticism, and here's why I didn't like the movie, or here's why Matthew's performance didn't translate for me, I always learn something from it.

And is it something that you do? Will you study reviews from serious people after a film comes out in order to improve your craft? Because they're good at theirs.

Yes. Yes, I have done this. Look, obviously it's more fun to read a good review, and obviously when you do your work and I feel like I did it well and I read a good review, I think those people are smarter. But I went away 8 years ago and I had my publicist gather every bad review that's ever been written on my performances, which is almost 50 at the time.

That's not in the book, huh?

It was a—

no, it's not. I didn't put it in there. Maybe it could be in the next one. I went away and read every single one and kind of learned more from the bad reviews in a way than I did from the good ones.

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Hello, Dennis. An honor anytime I hear your voice, much less actually have the privilege of talking with you. Thank you. I am probably your biggest fan that there ever was. I called in a couple months ago and I told you that I have never heard a word come out of your mouth that I don't agree with. And I told you that I was a gay man, and one guy— when you hung up, you said, I wonder how he feels about how I feel about gay marriage. That'd be interesting to know. So you told me to call back on a Friday, so I'm calling back and I just wanted to say 100% I agree with your perspective based on your religious convictions that gay marriage is something you do not support. And I'm not a hypocrite. I myself personally, I did a lot of research when AIDS came out, and although it's not a popular statement to make, I think had there been much more religion or monogamy gay community, that disease would never have spread as much as it did. So my desire for gay marriage, solely based on the fact I was hoping that it would promote more monogamy and more loving and caring relationships between same-sex partners, even though I recognize, even my own religion— I was raised Catholic— it goes against it.

Well, you You're a special man. There used to be more of you. Yeah, yeah, and you know I don't patronize callers or any listener or anybody, so I mean it. But there were more of you in the past when people were able to say, I would like X, but I realize that for the society's sake that might not be the best call. Just as I realize that monogamy within the gay community is an asset. I, I, I am 100% agree with you, right? Yes. So because— and there's a reason why you and I agree. It has nothing to do with me being straight and you being gay. It has to do with that we are both guided by reason and reason and decency. That's all that is needed to agree. Now, people could be guided by reason and decency and come to different views on certain things. That's true. But by and large, they will agree on most. There are arguments for same-sex marriage, but I, as a person of Judeo-Christian specifically Jewish in my case, conviction. I understand God wanting matrimony as only between a man and a woman, and that once you break that barrier, that guardrail, a lot of things can happen. One of my arguments, which was not religious-based, against same-sex marriage was when I heard the basic argument of those in favor of it. Gender doesn't matter. And I said then, I predicted, once you say gender doesn't matter, you are erasing the male-female distinction, which is exactly what has happened since same-sex marriage. The left never stops. It's like the, uh, the baboons who tell us in the guise of doctors tell us that even after getting vaccinated, we will have to wear a mask. It never ends, you see. First it was don't overload the ICU departments or wards in, in hospitals. Then they weren't. Then, then there was another one, flatten the curve. Then there was another one, And now after the vaccine— see, it doesn't end. Once you say gender doesn't matter, it doesn't end. Anyway, I appreciate you very much, as you appreciate me. Paula in Roseville, California. Hello.

Hi, how are you? I'm well, thank you. Okay. Um, in regard— I have a question. In regard to COVID-19, are you concerned, um, that the ICUs might be overwhelmed and then those who really need care might not get it? Um, because it's— I agree with you most of everything you say, uh, you know, of course the mortality rate is very low with this, but they say it's so contagious that if so many people get sick at one time then the hospitals might be— uh, not the hospitals, the ICUs would be overwhelmed. That is something I'm curious what, what your take on that is.

Well, I do worry about it. I, I don't know how one could not worry about it, and I do. Uh, however, I am so angry at the medical profession for not keeping people out of the ICU to begin with by not giving them anything like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, and both the first one with zinc. They— the medical profession is, is in my opinion responsible for a vast number of the people entering ICUs who shouldn't because they have deceived not, not because they are evil. They are just cowards or herd sheep that they have not recommended this, these incredibly safe drugs, and kept people out of the ICU. So what we're told is, oh, ICUs will be overloaded, so lose your job, lose your livelihood lose all of your life savings because the ICUs may be loaded. But I won't prevent them from being loaded by using hydroxychloroquine. So I am a bit disgusted with the medical profession. Doctors saved my life, for the record. Just want to make that clear. I have great, great gratitude. I have no interest in doctors' advice. I have great interest in doctors' abilities. Get it? Doctors are no more courageous or wise than any other group of human beings. There's a very famous statement— it's not famous, I take it back. There's an interesting statement in the Talmud, second holiest work of Judaism. The best doctors go to hell. Tov sheber ofim legehinom. I only tell it to you in Hebrew so you will know I didn't make it up. There's a very deep awareness that if there's any group that is likely to deify itself, it's doctors.

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—huge number of Democrats who believe that the Russians changed the outcome of the election in 2016, but they're just flabbergasted that Donald Trump is daring to suggest that this election might have been rigged or might be fraudulent. No matter what the Russians may have done, I say to my friends who are listening to the program, the Democrats, no matter what the Russians have done or the Chinese have done or the Iranians have done, and clearly they've all have tried to interfere with our elections. It pales in comparison to the interference, and I put that in quotes, by the mainstream media that you guys gobble up.

Hunter Biden, New York Post breaks this story days before the election. This is a bombshell, and it isn't because Hunter Biden did anything illegal necessarily. It's because Joe Biden has for months denied knowing anything whatsoever about his son's business, let alone that he met with any of his son's colleagues, business colleagues, business associates. And it turns out Tony Bobulinski, the longtime business associate of Hunter who broke with Hunter, goes public and says he met with Joe Biden for some time and also worked with Joe Biden's brother. And when he said to Joe Biden's brother, look, isn't this kind of dicey for you to be involved in something like this? Joe Biden's brother said, we have plausible deniability. So this story broke, and what did the mainstream media say? They said this is Russian disinformation. You have a— you have the CEO of Twitter suppressing the story, admitting he suppressed the story, and he admitted they shouldn't have done it, but the story was spiked.

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The rich are richer. Google and Facebook are more powerful than ever before. Normal people have had their voice suppressed. Anywhere between 250,000 to 275,000 to 300,000 people have died from the Chinese coronavirus. The lockdowns have killed dreams, ambitions, and human beings through suicide and other means. How did all of this happen? Aristotle famously said that we are the speaking beings. If we do not have the ability to speak and communicate, we are no different than the animals of the wild. Aristotle was a scientist. He was— some would call him an empiricist. It's not a perfect categorization, but he cared about what was happening in the natural world, where Plato cared about what was happening in the clouds, the space of ideas. Aristotle cared a lot about what was actually provable and based in reason. That's why he is called just "the philosopher" in a lot of traditions. So when you're not able to speak, when you're not able to spread ideas, don't be surprised when your entire civilization starts to unravel. So when you're not able to say, "Hey, I think hydroxychloroquine might actually work," and all of a sudden your YouTube account gets shut down, your Twitter account gets shut down, your Facebook page gets shut down, you get fired like Dr. Simone Gold, These Soviet-style tactics that are used suppress speech. So what ended up happening? There was a massive PR push done by some great doctors, Dr. Erickson, Dr. Simone Gold, amongst many others, to Well, who made this one?

Oh, Chris Mann. All right, that's right. Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. By the way, I do want to remind you that there are two spectacular trips that I'm taking next year. The, uh, the cruise with listeners, which I've done for 25 years, and the trip to Israel. Both are on my website. The, the The cruise rates go up January 1st. The Israel trip remains the same. By the way, the Israel trip you can cancel till May. The cruise is in June. The Israel is next October, and the, uh, the, the cruise always sells out. Either is a great gift, by the way. You want to give a great Christmas gift to somebody? Trip with me is a big deal. Not because it's me— I hope that that's a factor— but the trip is bigger than me. But I'm on it, and I give a lot of talks, and it's a very beautiful thing. Both banners are at my website. All right, y'all, let's go to Mike in Pittsburgh, hello.

Hey, Mr. Prager, how are you?

Well, thank you.

Good. Hey, um, I had a situation this weekend and I hope I handled it well, but I would like your advice on it. I give ski lessons and I had a lesson with an 8-year-old child who was pretty good skier, had had lessons before. And they were wearing a mask, and the child was very— you could tell disturbed over the mask and had been wearing it. It's very hard to communicate with and very sad. I sensed that the mask has traumatized the child. So let me understand.

Do you— yeah, go on.

Yeah, I was going to say, my question for you is, what is your question? The best ways to handle these children?

Well, to the extent that I would have any say in the matter, if I were the, the father or the instructor, uh, I would live on Earth rather than in epidemiologyville. And I would, I would say don't wear it. We're skiing. Who are you going to infect? You're zipping by.

There's no one. Go ahead.

No, go ahead.

Well, I was going to say, that's my point exactly. There's no one that the child was going to infect. But the situation—

almost never do infect adults. Yes, exactly, folks. You can't cancel life. It's the first time in history that we have canceled life because there's a virus, and it doesn't seem to be working. Masks, masks, masks. What percentage of Americans— I think it's a giant— it's an enormous percentage of Americans are wearing masks, and were supposedly at record rates of hospitalization and death. All right, so this— there's so much dishonesty involved, which is very tragic. I wish, I wish it were clear whom to trust. I do. But with the medical profession announcing in the thousands that it's okay to demonstrate for racial justice, that that's a health benefit. I know that liars are talking to me, that these people are as interested in medicine as I am in, uh, in badminton. I always use badminton as my example. Choose another one. I'm almost interested in everything, so it's not easy for me to pick something. I just read a book on eels. Brian, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh to Erie. Okay, keep it in Western Pennsylvania. Hello, I'm, I'm Mr.

Prager. Pleasure talking to you.

Um, thanks.

Like I was telling your screener, I am— when I was, uh, 13, 14 years old, we— and throughout the summer we would go to Boy Scout summer camp. And I— a friend of mine, it was Jewish, and every time he would greet me with— and I'm, I'm probably butchering it, but I will I'll try my best. In Hebrew, I think it's, uh, or something like that. Does that—

except for the last word, you got it right. How pleasant it is. I'm trying to tell him that, uh, uh, friends or brothers sit together and Oh great, got it. Yep, good. Now you got it. He was not saying anything bad. It was very— it was a very sweet, uh, statement. Hey folks, I— when I first heard about Pure Talk, that you could get the telephone service for, uh, $20 a month— oh, didn't you say, uh, I think you said the other Sean goes into the punishment room. Anyway, it was Pure Talk. I'm happy to tell you about them. Pure Talk is great. Pound 250, Dennis Prager. Uh, but I do want to remind you that, uh, if I— if you can give yourself a sort of Christmas present of less pain, then why wouldn't you give it a 3-week try? Because you'll know in 3 weeks weeks if it works. Doesn't work, and the issue— but you can get 3-week supply for $19.95. Take it as directed, give it a try. I take it, almost everyone I know does. ReliefFactor.com, 800-500-8384.

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Is that 2020 will really go down as the year that the most powerful people on the planet The most— the people that have the most money, the most influence, the most access to capital, that control the most powerful companies, they tried to make America in their image, and they largely succeeded. This is a hard thing for us to admit. It's a hard thing for us to admit that the masters of the universe, the masters of Menlo Park, if you go back in January all the way, fast forward to today, just in 2020, They pulled off a decade of transformation in 11 months. Think about where we were back in January. Critical race theory, BLM Incorporated were considered radical movements and radical pieces of thought. Not at Google though. At Google and at YouTube, and at the Masters of Menlo Park, they considered critical race theory to be a religious text. They considered Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis to be what I would view Isaiah and Elijah, prophets of what is to come, of some form of Hegelian dystopian nightmare. The country was not as digitized. Donald Trump was experiencing one of the greatest economies in American history, if not the greatest economy in American history.

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Last week on Sunday, you had the, um, a Republican judge in Michigan say to the Giuliani team that a third-party audit could go forward in Antrim County. Why is that important? Antrim County is where the 6,000 votes went from the Trump column to the Biden column. It was nearly a full 33% of the county that got switched in that, and, and we discussed discovered it through a hand signature audit of the county that the, the Republican— Michigan. Yes. And it was the first place, Eric, where we first heard the word Dominion voting. It was, it was in that county, it was in that flip, it was in that switch. At the time, the Secretary of State in that state said that it was a clerical error, that a clerk made the mistake, and then they shut off all discussion of it. Will a judge—

Okay, all, I'm Dennis Prager. And I'm going to go to more of your calls. Amazingly, there's a line open. There's almost never a line open on a Friday in the third hour. 1-800-PRAGER-776, 877-243-7776. Things that are on your mind here. All right, y'all, let's see here. Kevin in North Hollywood, California. Hi, Dennis Prager.

Hey, hi there, Dennis. This is North Hollywood Kevin, um, and I want to say that, uh, I do like badminton a little bit.

I didn't say I didn't like it. I said I had no interest in it. Okay, okay, well, okay, I like it too. I don't follow—

I I also love Dr. Fussman, but here's my, uh, question, and it concerns the coronavirus. It's a two-pronged question. Number one, because there's apparently 300,000 deaths from corona, which is like a lot. And compare that to other countries like China, like Japan, Korea, Australia, where there's like, I don't know, 2,000, 3,000 deaths. So like, we are doing something really, really wrong because we're the highest on earth. What are we doing that everybody— that most other countries are not doing. And the other question is this: if you have, um, you said over 80 years old, if you get it, the odds of dying are about 9— the odds of living are about 90%, which means 10% chance of death, which means If you go to your Christmas party and there's 10 80-year-olds at the party— because I'm—

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're, you're missing. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Your chances are 10% if you get COVID and you're over 80, not if you're over 80. If you're over 80, your chances are much less than 10% of dying of COVID Only if it's only one out of 10 over 80 who was infected that dies. Not— you do it, you understand the difference? The difference is enormous.

Oh yes, yes, I understand.

All right, so let me go to your first question because that's, uh, that's very important. And I, I thank you for calling, and I'm going to give you some of the data here. Am I right? Thank you. Okay. I must say that the internet here is awful, so I may not be able to do that.

Am I still on? No, no, no.

Yeah, you know what, I actually, I tried to, I got it. So Sean, you want to let the gentleman go because I lost the assistant producer here. Okay, thank you. Okay, so let me give you some data here, which I've been trying to find. I'm going to give you the Uh, from where I look, which is Worldometers, and for whatever reason I'm having a tough time today. Okay, this should do it. I have it here. They have changed their website, my friends. There is nothing I can do about this. They used to have the list come up of every country, and the United States was— I don't remember, I don't remember what number, but you, you have to do deaths per million. You can't say, oh, 300,000. Oh, that's finally up. God Almighty. Sorry, I know some of you don't like if I say God Almighty. I have a whole thing on that too in my— okay, deaths per million. Belgium is higher than the US. Italy is higher than the US. Peru is higher than the US. Bosnia and Herzegovina is higher than the US. Slovenia is higher than the US. North Macedonia is higher than the US. Spain is higher than the US. Montenegro is higher than the US. The United Kingdom is higher than the US. So you would have to ask, gee, what have they all done that's so wrong? Just asking why did the US do that so wrong is— you'd have to list all these countries. Gee, why did they do that so wrong? I I would also add that I don't know if every country gives the same data. In other words, the same criteria for data of who died of COVID Uh, there was a story that was sent to me, and pardon me, but it's too important. I have to find it for you if I can here, of a— in Colorado, which just occurred Okay, and let's see, I think I got it. Yeah, ready, gun, here we go. Listen to this. Okay, uh, here we go. This is, uh, Katie Pavlich, who's very reliable. A coroner in Colorado was sounding the alarm over how deaths in her county are being counted and attributed to Wuhan coronavirus. The coroner, Brenda Bach, says 2 of their 5 deaths related to COVID-19 were people who died of gunshot wounds. CBS News Denver reported this. Bach says because they tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 30 days, they were classified as deaths among cases. Bach is calling this classification absurd and raises concerns death certifications are falsely driving the narrative about the direction of the pandemic. Health officials in the state say they're simply following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control on how to classify deaths of individuals from and with the virus. It's absurd that they would even put that on there. Bach told the news outlet. Would you want to go to a county that has really high death numbers? Would you want to go visit that county because they are contagious? You know, I might get it and I could die if all of a sudden one county has a high death count. We don't have it and we don't need those numbers inflated. The way the CDC and doctors from the White House Wuhan coronavirus have been classifying deaths from the pandemic has been problematic since the spring. There is a difference between dying from something and dying with something. So I don't believe 300,000 Americans have died from the virus. The virus is not a hoax. The medical profession has been corrupted by the left because everything the left touches, it corrupts. I will be back.

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Listen to what Joe Biden said. About the actions like the one we saw last night in Minneapolis to literally defund the police.

But I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that because they've already labeled us as being defund the police. Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you will occur, promise you. Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5th, because that's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we're talking about defunding the police. We're not. We're talking about holding them accountable.

Nothing screams holding them accountable better than stripping $8 million from the police department in Minneapolis, which of course will result in— here's how this works. If you don't have funds for the police, if you funnel them into, uh, I guess mental health counselors, and good luck handling a raging violent criminal. Good luck with that if you're a mental health counselor. Maybe you can sit there and start singing folk music to somebody who's, you know, waving a machete around. Maybe you could go back and ask them if they wet the bed when they were a child as they're, you know, on a rampage. Oh, we're not. But this is a very important clip from Biden. You've got to know exactly his intention.

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Is there anybody in the business of film criticism who you admire for their craft?

Guy like Joe Morgenstern with Wall Street Journal. He has liked some of my work, he has liked some of my movies, he has not liked some and not like me in some. But all that— when he doesn't like it, he's constructive about it. Meaning, I read— I'll read bad criticisms and I can tell in the first line that, oh, this person had it in for me before they even saw the movie. They had already started this bad review before they saw the movie. So you know what, that's not really a criticism, that's that person's hang-up. But when I can read somebody that has a good criticism— criticism, and Joe does, I think— constructive criticism. And here's why I didn't like the movie, or here's why Matthew's performance didn't translate for me.

I always learned something from it. And, uh, is it something that you do where you All right, everybody, final segment of the final hour of the week. Dennis Prager here. Next Friday is Christmas. We'll have a best-of show, obviously. I want you to celebrate it unless there are very, very strong medical reasons not to be with people. You will, uh, you will suffer health-wise if you don't get together with people. Not 9 months in solitary confinement essentially has a health effect too. There's a cost-benefit analysis process that needs to be made. All right, Gabriel, Portland, Oregon. Lucky guy, live in Portland.

Any new autonomous zones lately? Very lucky, right?

So what's on your mind?

I've been a listener for more than half of my life.

I'm 42. I've been listening to you since college, and I appreciate everything you do.

I'm glad. Thank you.

You're welcome, you're welcome. Last, uh, last Friday you raised a question or a point about people not being able to control themselves, specifically the left, uh, wanting to control other people, I should say. And I was wondering your thoughts on a point that I've thought for a very long time.

If people don't control themselves, they're going to control somebody else. I believe people have a built-in desire to have control, and if they don't have self-control, I believe that they'll control other people or desire to control other people, and I think that applies to the left.

That's a very interesting theory. I have to think it through. What is the relationship between self-control and the desire to control others? The number one task in life is to control oneself. That is the hardest and most important task. If everybody did, the world would be heavenly. So that's clear. There is no emphasis on self-control on the left. It is government control. The question is, do they personally not exercise self-control? Well, if the rioters rioters are an example. They don't. If the tolerance of rioters is an example, it's a very intelligent point. Somebody hung up and wanted to know if I was going to— if I'm interested in writing a Passover Haggadah or Haggadah. And the answer is that I hope to, but after I finish my Bible commentary, I'm writing my autobiography. I I have a lot to say about a very interesting life, my own. Anyway, everybody, God bless you, and get together with people if at all possible. And I will be with you next week. In the meantime, have a wonderful, or as wonderful a weekend as you can make it. I just got to do a promo. Do I have any ads to do? I'd have to do some ads.